This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Uhm, guys, the skin is not a plastic wrap but a organ; it absorbs substances. And while some can be bad for the skin (like, causing rash or cancer), some others can get into the blood stream this way. And some plastic softeners (of earpieces for example) are not allowed in most markets for this very reason.
Not about the article but about some of the comments here.
Clickbait! This is nothing news since the report isn't publicly available. This is just the media working to keep you scared and reading.
From my experience reading the guardian, click bait isn’t their thing. Also it says the investigation isn’t finished and they reached out for a comment , which usually means there’s room for an explanation or clarification if their findings are off. This is pretty common to openly ask “correct us if we’re wrong”.
Also it mentions the organization and European program backed by the EU.
No source linked by the article, no visible press releases that don't just pretend to be a real press release while citing the articles, no official blog posts, and the only official sounding mention of this that comes from a more direct source is a coalition on linkedin saying a person at a sub-group of the broader project was gonna talk with them about it.
No stats, no numbers, just "they found it" in the headphones.
You could find a chemical well under the safe limit in drinking water, and say "we found x in your water" and make a big scare of it when it's not a big deal.
While I have no doubt BPA and its counterparts could be used in manufacturing of headphones, without any actual data, this is literally no better than when your uncle at Thanksgiving starts yapping about how the government found some data one time and that means you should never drink tap water again.
This seems like a nothing burger. Plenty of things you shouldn't ingest like BPA, plastic, and solder are perfectly benign when used to construct consumer electronics.
I'd be more interested to hear they found something that leeches through the skin being used to create the body of the headphones.
BPAs have been shown to absorbed through the skin. Headphones are increasingly worn for long, continuous periods. Unlike other plastic objects which are handled for shorter periods.
I’m not entirely convinced of the danger myself (tinnitus seems a bigger worry for headphone use to me), but I thought it was a matter worthy of further discussion.
Sheepskin earpads it is!
Like the condoms?
TIL: You can still buy them, even Trojan sells them wtf.
Do they make condoms from Israeli circumcised foreskin?
I did wonder this myself. Can it enter the body via normal usage? And if so, in what dose? Enough for us to care?
I don't make a habit of putting headphones in my mouth, but young children do things like that.
Wait.. What do you mean with shouldn't injest.. I thought it was perfectly fine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Lotito
Wearing any brand of headphones, even for as little as two minutes, was shown to change the subjects' engrams on a well-calibrated E-meter.
we can't eat headphones anymore?
Only Beets by Dr Dre.
Is there a way to find out which models are guilty?
No, you just have to have the anxiety of which toxic chemicals you are in contact with every time you use your headphones. You're welcome.
Everything is toxic at some dose.
According to the article all of them.
All that we're sampled. So which were sampled?
They mentioned some brands, but not models.
Is it muddy bananas?
feminisation of males
Looks closely
The guardian
Well that's all I need to know about this.
Who is chewing on their headphones?
